A Hard Past
Elie wrote the book for several reasons. Elie writes this book to help us understand what it would be like in the camp even though we never will. Elie says that he needed to write the book he probably would have gone mad otherwise. Elie has a hard time thinking about what happened in the past and he try’s very hard not to over analyze what he did and what happened to others. He tells story’s of what had happened to his father and the people that were there during this time. Elie says he has many reasons for writing the book but not one is really why he did. Elie helped us understand what it was like to live in one of the camps. The book he says was not supposed to be very big but instead he was surprised to see that schools would use it for learning. He says that things have changed a lot since the 1950s when it was first published and that he is very surprised how far that his book has gone. Elie writes about how he was trying to tell people trying to warn them so that it would never happen again.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Head of the German propaganda. no one could read something they weren’t supposed to and that the Nazis arty was always put first before any thing else. He also said that the Nazis propaganda was the most persuasive that it could be.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, chief Roland Freisler Ministerial, Director Wilhelm ,Kritzinger, Alfred and many other people discussed what would happen to the Jews
The final solution was the plan to have the Arian race and kill all the Jews homosexuals and anyone else who they didn’t like or who got in there way.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Gypsies, people with disability’s , Poles, war , and Afro-Germans. The Nazis also identified political dissidents Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, these were all of the people that the Nazis targeted to kill they were cremated gassed hanged and shot these were the main ways of killing the people
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
There were closed ghettos open ghettoes and destruction ghettos they where located in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno Minsk,
The ghettos were a very hard life to live in there was constant epidemic hard to get foot and sickness and starvation were serious problems
The labor camps are were people would work all day they got very little water and food and they usually died from working to hard. Death camps were maid just to kill people they had furnaces and many other things to kill them.
There was burning gassing shooting these were the three main types of execution
The camps were liberated by many different nations but the most were liberated by the United States because they pushed the most into Germany.
Hitler killed himself near the end of the war.
The 24 defendants appeared in court they represented the Nazis party. The international Military Tribunal decide that the Nazi defendants did not have a ligitimenat defense.
Asssinment 3: Images of Night
Gehtos
small and full
coughing,yelling,running
Like a million ants in a cup and no food to feed them
People lay lifeless and dead
Sleeping
In streets of the dead
Table of Contents
Robby F. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
A Hard PastElie wrote the book for several reasons. Elie writes this book to help us understand what it would be like in the camp even though we never will. Elie says that he needed to write the book he probably would have gone mad otherwise. Elie has a hard time thinking about what happened in the past and he try’s very hard not to over analyze what he did and what happened to others. He tells story’s of what had happened to his father and the people that were there during this time. Elie says he has many reasons for writing the book but not one is really why he did. Elie helped us understand what it was like to live in one of the camps. The book he says was not supposed to be very big but instead he was surprised to see that schools would use it for learning. He says that things have changed a lot since the 1950s when it was first published and that he is very surprised how far that his book has gone. Elie writes about how he was trying to tell people trying to warn them so that it would never happen again.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
The final solution was the plan to have the Arian race and kill all the Jews homosexuals and anyone else who they didn’t like or who got in there way.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
The ghettos were a very hard life to live in there was constant epidemic hard to get foot and sickness and starvation were serious problems
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
There was burning gassing shooting these were the three main types of execution
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Hitler killed himself near the end of the war.
The 24 defendants appeared in court they represented the Nazis party. The international Military Tribunal decide that the Nazi defendants did not have a ligitimenat defense.
Asssinment 3: Images of Night
Gehtos
small and full
coughing,yelling,running
Like a million ants in a cup and no food to feed them
People lay lifeless and dead
Sleeping
In streets of the dead